Some periods in our history are so transformative that they create a clear divide between the world before and after. We attribute the 18th and 19th centuries to such a period. Named the Industrial ...

When an inventor has a unit of measurement named after him, it's clear his work had more than a small impact on scientific and industrial progress. So it was for James Watt, whose Watt engine is often ...

Source: Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay. Human history, in many instances, is punctuated by technological revolutions that have fundamentally altered the trajectory of civilization. From the steam ...